CJKV information processing
by Ken Lunde · first published 1998
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…looking for good books on how to process Arabic texts. I'm looking in particular for a description the various encoding and character sets, how Arabic is displayed and written with a computer. For example CJKV Information Processing by Ken Lunde is excellent for CJKV (Chinese / Japanese / Korean / Vietnamese) languages. I'm looking for something similar, but for Arabic languages. Thanks.
on “Ask HN: Books to learn about Arabic text processing” ↗…to CJKV support[2], it's mind-boggling. Even then, it's nowhere near as good as macOS :-/ [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pango & https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz [2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/CJKV-Information-Processing-Ken-Lun...
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